Timber treatment is for structural wood that has stayed damp, such as joists, wall plates, and lintels found on a damp survey. It is for houses in England, Scotland, and Wales, not for furniture or floor sanding. Send the quote form or WhatsApp with what the wood is doing.
Timber Treatment & Preservation
Wood decays when it stays wet. The treatment preserves sound timber and replaces what has lost its strength, after the water is stopped.
A stained skirting can be a symptom. The survey follows it into the joist or plate. Painting the face does not preserve the section that is doing the work.
Opening up where the survey cannot see, treatment of timber that can stay, replacement of timber that cannot, and the masonry damp repair that caused it.
We do not treat dry, insect-damaged furniture, and we do not sand floors. Active woodworm in dry timber is a different specification from rot in wet timber.
Timber Treatment & Preservation
Ends built into a damp wall are the usual failure. The wall is repaired or the bearing is isolated, or both.
A plate on a damp sleeper wall or a wet concrete oversite stays at risk until the moisture under it is dealt with.
A timber lintel in a wet wall can crush. The survey says whether it still carries the load.
Below-ground damp and poor airflow keep joists at a high moisture content. Waterproofing and timber are quoted together when both are failing.
A springy or musty board is opened where the joist cannot be seen from above. Boards are lifted by agreement.
Blocked air bricks keep a void damp. Clearing them is part of the job when the void is the problem. A spray in a closed void is not.
Rot treatment without stopping the damp fails again. The source is part of the survey.
Rot treatment without stopping the damp fails again.
We lift or cut what we need to see the section that carries load.
Preservative is for timber that still has its strength.
A new joist end is not built back into a wall that is still damp.
The masonry repair is in the same quote when that is the source.
The treatment named in the written quote carries a 30-year guarantee.
The price moves with how much timber has lost its strength, how much has to be opened up, and the damp repair beside it. A spray price with no opening-up is not a comparable quote.
Questions that decide whether this is the right job.
Only if the survey finds an insect problem that needs a specification. Wet rot and insect attack are not the same visit by default.
No. Timber that stays wet will decay again. The quote includes the moisture source.
No. We repair and preserve structural timber. Floor finishing is a different trade.
By opening up and testing the section, not from a stain on the ceiling below.
Tell us the floor, whether it follows rain, and the postcode. The quote follows the survey.
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Learn more about Rising Damp TreatmentWaterproofing for rooms below ground, quoted only after a moisture survey of that space.
Learn more about Basement WaterproofingSurveys run in Kent, Cardiff, and Glasgow, and in the other counties and towns on the areas page.
Name the room, the floor, and what the wall is doing. WhatsApp takes the same details.